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As a result, Google will now have a dedicated team with hardware experience working internally on its WearOS software platform and potentially on new smartwatch designs as well.

One product that quickly comes to mind is Nest. Google paid quite a sum for it, then killed it.

If we look closely at its [current] messaging regime, we can only conclude that Google's business with Fossil will not buck the trend.

Meanwhile...

https://www.cio.com/article/30...
https://www.infoworld.com/arti...
http://techrights.org/2017/04/...

Hardly 20 years ago.

Pretty sure switching to Mac already accomplished this for them.

https://www.cio.com/article/31...

Maybe there's a dongle for that?

Err, sure you aren't thinking of 5ghz wifi there, champ?

Yes, I'm sure. Because while 5G will use some low frequency bands, 70MHz of bandwidth across 600-700 MHz is not going to be faster than LTE in the existing 700MHz blocks without a channel width increase, which does not increase overall network speed/capacity, just speed and capacity available to individual clients at the cost of increased congestion.

The same thing goes for the mid-bands.

High speed 5G requires millimeter wavelengths, which are even more easily absorbed than 5 GHz WiFi signals.

If the millimeter wavelength speeds of 5G are not rolled out widely, what is the motivation for the consumer to buy an all new phone to access it? Less network congestion (initially)? Has 4G LTE data congestion really been a consumer issue except in serving as an excuse for data limits -- as if those will change with 5G service?

In a world (meaning the US)

I'm pretty sure the world consists of other places too

Woosh. Also, I'm pretty sure that I don't live in those places, so I'm pretty sure I can't make informed statements concerning the state of new telecommunications infrastructure rollout, such as fiber to the home, there. Yet the US is a part of the world, I can make informed statements about that.

WTF is wrong with Microsoft that I can attempt to open a PDF in MS Server 2014, and it STILL can't handle it natively?!?

There is a reason for this:

Adobe Systems refused to let Microsoft implement built-in PDF support in Microsoft Office, citing fears of EEE (Embrace, extend, and extinguish). -- Wikipedia

PDF is a Public-Domain Format. Exactly WHAT was Adobe going to "Refuse" them to do, legally?

And so how is this different from the PDF support built-into Edge in W10?

WTF is wrong with Microsoft that I can attempt to open a PDF in MS Server 2014, and it STILL can't handle it natively?!?

There is a reason for this:

Adobe Systems refused to let Microsoft implement built-in PDF support in Microsoft Office, citing fears of EEE (Embrace, extend, and extinguish). -- Wikipedia

Yeah, I know, DFTT

> People use closed source software knowing full well that the product may be discontinued, or it may go unmaintained at some point. The risks are well known and understood.

The software being open or closed is irrelevant to the discussion.

> All we need to do is look at GitHub, SourceForge, or Apache to see that most open source projects do in fact end up dead. Of course, open source advocates don't admit to this.

[[Citation]]

The _difference_ is when Vendor A goes out of business you are _completely_ fucked for future updates. Good lucking fixing bugs in a closed source program.

When an OSS project stops being maintained the source is _still_ there. You have the _option_ of hiring a competent programmer to fix bugs in it -- with closed source there is no option.

The _real_ problem is that you picked an OSS project that wasn't popular enough. What The Fuck were you doing when you _evaluated_ the software in the first place??? The _first_ thing you do when picking ANY software from a business POV regardless if it is closed, or open, is to evaluate:

a) the _community,_
b) _support_, and
c) a BACKUP plan. That is, what was your _migration strategy_ for WHEN "this software is no longer available?" What's that? You didn't _think_ of THAT scenario? Blaming OSS for your own short-sighted stupidity is a moronic attempt at trying to pass the buck for your incompetence.

> myth is probably that open source software is somehow "better".
> Open source products are just as buggy as closed source software products are.

As opposed to the FACTs that closed source is buggy-as-shit ???

In fact, the most recent report (2013) found open source software written in C and C++ to have a lower defect density than proprietary code. The average defect density across projects of all sizes was 0.59 for open source, and 0.72 for proprietary software.

It is hard the get an accurate bug count with closed source because closed source is too embarrassed to tell the truth but here are some stats:

* Windows 2000 had 63,000 bugs,
* Windows 7 had 2,000 bugs,
* Windows 10 1,300 bugs

No one pretends OSS is some silver bullet. But it has numerous advantages that closed source will NEVER have (by definition.) Every disadvantage that OSS has is _also_ the exact same closed source.

You can't put a price on freedom.

Mod parent -1 troll.

APFS does have checksums, and can operate both in a case insensitive, or case sensitive mode.

So not different to HFS+ then. HFS+ can operate in case-insensitive or case-sensitive modes, with or without journaling. The default format is case-insensitive with journaling.

For reference Linus' main criticism was that it used normalized names with NFD Unicode. He was pretty airy-fairy about its case-sensitivity and whether or not it stored strings in UTF8 or UCS2 format - it's actually UTF-16 which is not the same thing as UCS2 at all. Anyone still using UCS2 needs a lobotomy.

And, for the record, APFS doesn't do any Unicode normalization of names at all so is currently unusable for non-English languages unless you're very careful or have a death wish!

Especially since Linus himself says otherwise.

No, he does not. You are a liar. Go away, we have more than enough liars on Slashdot.

What idiots labeled this crap as interesting? There are lots of people stopping women from coding. I suspect that most of the reasons women are unrepresented in the coding world are because women don't want to deal with fools like you.

Why Venture Capitalists Don’t Fund Women-Led Startups

Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender

Just understanding the laws of physics gives any STEM grad a huge advantage over a liberal arts students in bullshit detection.

Because those physicists who search for elusive particles and then say, "Isn't God grand?" aren't spewing bullshit.

Critical thinking in liberal arts schools is just another indoctrination. Test is how well they agree with the teachers opinions.

Except the opposite is true. Those who graduate from liberal arts schools, on the whole, have better critical thinking skills than do those who graduate from professional or vocational schools. You'll note this study is from 2011.

From a few years ago: the survey reveals that 74 percent of business and nonprofit leaders say they would recommend a twenty-first century liberal education to a young person they know in order to prepare for long-term professional success in today's global economy.

A bit more recent: DePauw University President Brian Casey recently argued in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that liberal arts graduates have the creativity and critical thinking skills that today's employers need.

When managers and employers are asked to identify what traits they want in employees, "without fail they almost perfectly describe liberal-arts graduates," says Casey. "They want people who are creative, who can deal with complexity, who can think for themselves, [and] work with other folks," he adds.

And finally, from August of last year: Experts agree that technical skills can be taught much more easily than soft skills. If you have workers with great communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills, hold onto them. "You can have the best technology and processes in the world, but if your people aren't able to communicate about them, if they aren't effectively demonstrating teamwork, critical thinking and emotional intelligence, it doesn't help your business succeed," King says.

Those kinds of skills always have been emphasized in liberal arts education, and nowadays even technology-focused programs and institutions are integrating these tenets into their curriculum, says PK Agarwal, CEO and regional Dean, Northeastern University Silicon Valley (NUSV).

Sooo, speaking of bullshit detector.

hmm... for me your link freezes after the first redirect... Already slashdottted?

Here is another link I found about it:

http://www.cio.com/article/300...

Most corporates get license compliance audits. Which are expensive to deal with. Organisations have to buy tools to track and manage deployments and licenses for Windows and other applications to deal with these issues. Nobody includes these costs when measuring ROI. http://www.cio.com/article/245...

So when I worked with over seas teams it was always the US team members who were working evenings and weekends due to making phn calls across time zones. This annoyed me so I asked my boss. She said that beyond the cultural factors there was no infrastructure like in the US. They had no internet in their apartments, and the company busses took them at 5:15 every evening (it was either that or they commute long distances on dangerous streets). So productivity was hampered.

Heck there is even an article on CIO.com about onshore outsourcing, even without debates over H1Bs and protecting American workers, due to hidden costs associated with offshoring. See: http://www.cio.com/article/318...

There are other such articles on the site as well.

But scroll down below the H1B discussion.

I had trouble finding the article provided in the news entry. CIO had it here: http://www.cio.com/article/317...

I thought it had already been tried with less complex AI in the last century.
They were basically selling when the price was dropping and buying when the price was rising.
The mass of automated idiots following the same rules led to an amplification of the effect and very soon : ruin.

I think this is the story I'm talking about.

"Unless you are very very sharp"

That makes no difference to spreadsheet monkeys. I have seen thousands of years of experience and training in high end jobs thrown away, not commodity positions, because they made the numbers look good. They then went to work for the company's competitors. I predict spreadsheet monkey, which probably means you, are great candidates for replacement by AI as optimization can be done better by a machine than a human.

Also in your calculus you have forgotten:

1) Consulting companies overseas show case their best employees first and then over time replace them lower skilled workers. Enjoy!

2) In order to give less than a 90 days notice Indian workers must "buy out" their employment contract. This destroys free market forces in the labor market and increases the probability of working with unmotivated disgruntled employees.

3) Slippage due to language, timezone, and cultural differences. See http://www.cio.com/article/243...

4) The infrastructure overseas often is non-existant. What I saw was US workers working weekends and nights to coordinate with overseas workers because not only was working over time either illegal or culturally a "no-No", but also due to the fact there was no internet available in their homes.

I predict that if you spreadsheet monkeys keep your jobs over the next few years, I wouldn't bet on it, you will have lots and lots of fun coordinating far flung projects.

It has been shown that older tech workers adapt and handle new systems better than younger tech workers. They have had to learn how to integrate diverse systems and how to manage less than optimal solutions. This happens with experience. Experience that younger workers don't have. If you want the best workers, it is counterproductive to drive those people away.

http://www.cio.com/article/300...

Except Apple's proprietary formats suck, like HFS and HFS+ disk formats. I won't store anything that I care about on them. All of my data is safe on mirrored Linux fileshares.

http://www.cio.com/article/286...

I suppose you're right -- it's a poor workman who blames his tools.

This.

Sprint Admits Deceptive 'Half-Off' Deal Really Offers Only 20 Percent Off: http://www.cio.com/article/285...

Sprint Counts on Ignorance with New Half Price Plans: https://www.wirelessweek.com/b...

No, Sprint isn’t really cutting your phone bill in half: http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

Then you have worked at two companies who you could file a complaint against. H1-B is supposed to be only for hiring workers you can't find in the US.

See, for example, Disney, the Senate Judiciary committee on several others, perhaps a couple more examples, though many overlap.

http://www.cio.com/article/307...

Basically AT&T and Comcast want to protect their TV revenue--conflict of interest.

You like to dismiss criticism of your username as meaningless, but it's not. It suggests you, like so many others, treat this company and its philosophy like a religion. This suspicion is compounded by the evidence of your post history, which shows a clear agenda: trolling this website to back up Apple wherever possible. It's literally all you do. So forgive me if I find it futile to argue with the Apple priesthood.

Criticism OF my username is meaningless. But criticism BASED ON my username is worse.

I do not "worship" at the "Church of Cupertino". In fact, I own relatively little Apple gear, HAVE never (and WILL never) camp-out in line for an Apple product, have only been to our local Apple Store about 3 or 4 times in the ten or so years it has been open, and actually spend FAR more time on my work Windows 7 laptop than I do on my MacBook Pro.

Quite frankly, one of the things I like about Apple is the fact that their hardware and software products tend to BREAK the "Computer Priesthood" mythos (unlike Windows and even more so for Linux). For example, ask IBM how much they SAVE, and how much LESS they have to rely on Computer Priests when they allow Apple products into their corporate offices.

That isn't me saying it. It is an industry giant, who, by the way, really doesn't have anything to gain by doing so.

And they are most certainly not alone. Look at the comments by several large corporations that have "discovered" the benefits of Apple in business.

Again, not my words.

Although I thoroughly reject the idea that I am a member of the "Apple Priesthood", I do have quite a history of being an Apple user, going back to the Apple 1. As such, I have watched the company through its ups, and downs, and ups, and I know for a fact that their "corporate culture" is decidedly different for almost any other company their size.

There is a vast difference between "Worship" and "Recognition", which is something that seems to get conveniently ignored by the Haters. I RECOGNIZE that Apple, more than most tech companies, at least TRIES to "do right" by their Customer-base, by and large, even if they don't always do what *I* would want. And if I am a bit strident in my defense of Apple, it is mostly compensation for the ridiculous, over-the-top, bend-over-backwards hyper-critical postings of not just a few, but many, slashdotters (almost all who are too pusillanimous to actually log-in), who ascribe motives and machinations and wheels-within-wheels conspiracies to Apple, and who patently and off-handedly dismiss their hardware and software, almost always without even having touched same.

I guess I feel that someone needs to "set the record straight"; which is why I almost always back-up my posts with citations.

Which I notice that, in all your diatribe, you have not offered ONE fact in rebuttal to my OP.

To me, that is most telling...

A simple google search shows that you're a moron.

http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.cio.com/article/292...

I'll admit he is showing signs of developing alzheimer's, (No matter how much I explain, he still thinks "Foxfire" is his operating system) but windows update automatically downloading windows 10 in the background has been repeatedly posted on / and seems to be a pretty common issue:

http://www.cio.com/article/304...

http://winsupersite.com/window...

http://www.howtogeek.com/22855...

  http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

"Linux has essentially no measurable share of the market. Optimistically, it's sub-1%."

You may want to rethink that number. Chrome books are Linux based and it has more than a sub 1% share.

Actually they are shipping more chrome books than laptops.

http://www.cio.com/article/297...

So the year of the Linux laptop is here and no one even noticed! :P

it's someone from UL trying to instill fear and drum up business for their private, for profit company.

I was going to drum up that UL is a not-for-profit, but it turns out that you're right and I'm behind the times. UL went 'for-profit' back in 2012. Though it seems that the for profit branch is still owned by the non-profit parent company. So I wonder how the hell that works out.

I mean, I like businesses. I like companies doing their best to make a profit. Part of the whole libertarian thing. But also as part of the libertarian thing, I'm extremely supportive of non and not-for profits like the UL used to be, cooperatives, and employee-owned companies. My ideal utility company, for example, is a cooperative not-for profit.

UL discarding their 'not-for-profit' status makes me uncomfortable. Before, while I wouldn't term them perfect, I could at least say that the company's primary concern was safety above all else. Sure, they'd charge money - but they needed to keep the lights on. Not needing to turn a profit, they would be mostly immune to the corruption of having to satisfy their customers by passing goods that might not actually be as safe as they could be.

I used to work for a nonprofit which had a for-profit consulting company associated with them. I was on the nonprofit side. The for-profit side had better pay and benefits, for the exact same experience level and job function. The workers on the nonprofit side envied the for-profit side.

There are some disadvantages to being a nonprofit. Legitimate ones. Like the allowable retirement plans under IRS guidelines are different than the ones for normal companies and may not be as favorable to workers. Pay has to be justified and approved in different ways than a for-profit. Sometimes these quirks of tax law make it harder to hire staff, especially in highly technical jobs such as the UL might have need for. Maybe that isn't the case with UL labs at all, and it was done for sleazy reasons. But there are legitimate reasons to go for-profit.

Check out "Benefit Corporations" (NOT 'B-corps, that is totally different). They are a very new idea and we haven't yet seen how they will impact society and capitalism. I am sure that they will be very popular once someone tells the millennials.

it's someone from UL trying to instill fear and drum up business for their private, for profit company.

I was going to drum up that UL is a not-for-profit, but it turns out that you're right and I'm behind the times. UL went 'for-profit' back in 2012. Though it seems that the for profit branch is still owned by the non-profit parent company. So I wonder how the hell that works out.

I mean, I like businesses. I like companies doing their best to make a profit. Part of the whole libertarian thing. But also as part of the libertarian thing, I'm extremely supportive of non and not-for profits like the UL used to be, cooperatives, and employee-owned companies. My ideal utility company, for example, is a cooperative not-for profit.

UL discarding their 'not-for-profit' status makes me uncomfortable. Before, while I wouldn't term them perfect, I could at least say that the company's primary concern was safety above all else. Sure, they'd charge money - but they needed to keep the lights on. Not needing to turn a profit, they would be mostly immune to the corruption of having to satisfy their customers by passing goods that might not actually be as safe as they could be.

A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware:

D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)

Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)

Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)

Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)

Netgear: Netgear Patch Said to Leave Backdoor Problem in Router (April 23, 2014)

Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)

Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)

Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)

Hard drives: Breaking: Kaspersky Exposes NSA's Worldwide, Backdoor Hacking of Virtually All Hard-Drive Firmware (Feb. 17, 2015)

Is every backdoor the work of the NSA? There is no way of knowing.

A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware (Copied from another comment.):

D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)

Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)

Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)

Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)

Netgear: Netgear Patch Said to Leave Backdoor Problem in Router (April 23, 2014)

Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)

Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)

Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)

Hard drives: Breaking: Kaspersky Exposes NSA's Worldwide, Backdoor Hacking of Virtually All Hard-Drive Firmware (Feb. 17, 2015)

Is every backdoor the work of the NSA? There is no way of knowing.

Thomas Edison would be pleased, except he didn't originate the incandescent light-bulb. That honor goes to Swan, who sued Edison and as part of the settlement the light-bulb was sold under the Ediswan moniker. ref ref

Now you too can read all of itwbennett's Slashdot postings before he posts! Better yet you can ignore them on the original sites and know what to ignore on Slashdot! Remember kids, if it says "bennett" you've already stopped paying attention.

http://www.csoonline.com/about/rss/

http://www.cio.com/about/rss/

http://www.itworld.com/about/rss/

http://www.computerworld.com/about/rss/

The companies whose leaders were held up as visionaries, who provided a new model for industry to follow?

Anyone?

Anyone?

That's right. Kodak and Enron started this all in the early 1990's. One of the reasons outsource persists in spite of not saving any money is what I call "The NFL Problem."

You're a team owner. It's January. Your team went 4-12. You've just fired your coach. Now you need to find another coach. But you want someone with NFL head coach experience AND you don't want to pay what it would take to get Jimmy Johnson or Bill Parcells out of retirement.

What's then available?

The coach that went 3-13 and just got fired from some other team.

Let's now move into the computer industry. You may have read that Fossil (a company I had never heard of until this event) H-1Beed its Americans. http://dailycaller.com/2015/05...

I turned out that this was a decision made by new IT management Fossil had hired that had previously come from JCPenny. CIO magazine described the situation there as "Mismanagement for the Ages." http://www.cio.com/article/284...

Why in in the world with Fossil want to hire "Mismanagement for the Ages" to run their IT Department?

Just like the NFL owner, they probably wanted "experience" and did not want to pay a lot. That's why you see incompetent CIOs getting fired from one company and moving to another. It's not uncommon to see CIOs creating serial disasters at four or more companies.

Sadly, that is not a topic we got into in Sold Out because it was too industry specific but maybe in another book.

White-box data center switches are here already, with many OS choices per box. See http://www.cio.com/video/58283/is-there-a-white-box-switch-in-your-future

"What doesn't are vendor specific items like IE6, and if you were developing specifically for that, well, then you made a terrible choice, especially if it affected your entire application stack."

Oh stop showing you have no idea about software development. It's not about making a terrible choice, without being psychic one cannot make a better choice than supporting the two browsers that are used by the vast majority of the market. Not planning to support it when that's the status quo, and there's no obvious sign of impending change is utterly retarded. The fact that things did change is due to the unpredictable nature of technology.

"So apparently, the only thing that needed changing in your case was the GUI. If you knew squat about web development, that would have been a relatively minor thing to change, provided that you knew what you were doing in the first place. Building to IE6 indicates otherwise however."

The fact you think this shows how utterly out of your depth you are. The fact you believe you can blanket say that the UI is a small part of any project is utterly retarded, how do you know this? how do you know what the scope and scale of the project is? Stop talking about things you blatantly do not understand and cannot know about.

"No, what I need to be able to do is take technology today, as it exists, pick the proper components, even if they are alpha/beta, and ensure that my choices are kept up to date and do what they need to do, especially in the alpha/beta area. It's called tracking your dependencies, and it's not accomplished by tying yourself to maven central."

So in other words, use an agile process. Which is exactly what you're telling everyone not to do. Right.

"Have you worked in the real world? Generally a project is envisioned, then estimated and budgeted. This happens at the beginning of a project, because generally shareholders (public companies) don't like to spend 50M on a project (promised functionality) and not receive a working model."

Yes, and that's the point of Agile. It's designed to work in the real world where the only way you can truly estimate the amount of features you can implement for a specific cost is to actually do it. Thus, rather than pick a number and set of features out of thin air as with waterfall, you just set a budget, and keep rolling until you hit that budget, and what comes out is what is possible against that budget. If early on it looks like you're not even going to get close to the features you wanted for the budget, then you stop sprinting and fail early. This is far superior to failing late as with waterfall where you've blown your whole budget and ended up with something useless. Agile caters to change. That's the whole point.

Your description of GM and agile just further highlights that you don't know anything about agile. Agile doesn't demand that there are no communications between teams and stakeholders. The whole point of the job of stakeholders is that they're getting what they need, and if they're not working with other stakeholders to make it fit then what you're actually dealing with are inept project managers, which, guess what? also make waterfall projects fail on a regular basis. Retardation isn't limited to agile, nor is agile a magic cure for it.

"I'm describing the real world, how people try Agile, and how they and Agile fails. You can keep dreaming that it works"

Okay, I'll keep "dreaming" that it works, along with everyone that uses it to succesfully deliver projects, you know, like everyone from Google, to IBM, to Microsoft, to those government folks you falsely claimed only ever use waterfall:

http://www.cio.com/article/239...

People deliver with agile, the fact you claim they don't is evidence that you failed to implement it, or used the wrong tool for the job. That's not a defect with agile, that's a problem with your project leadership.

yeah. is a bit. here

My original lack of understand on what D really offers remains. Responses like "high-performance applications" tend to flow over my [head].

As a C programmer, you maybe haven't bought into OOP, templates, exception handling, metaprogramming, or other such features that C++ brought to the systems programming scene. Maybe, like Linus Torvalds, you've tried C++ and think it's a horrible language.

I myself agree with you (or rather, Linus)... except I'm coming from the applications world (C# mainly), where those nice features (that C++ popularized well and implemented poorly) are bread-and-butter techniques. I want to do systems programming with objects, exceptions, namespaces, reflection, etc., *but* I'm not willing to weather C++ for them, nor am I willing to drop down to C. Ergo D, except it doesn't really have a viable ecosystem at this point. :-( (And, like you said, JavaScript/Java/C#/Python/etc are fast enough for the vast majority of applications.)

Management feels it is better not to secure.

"A quote from a sony cio interview from 2007 regarding security sums up the problem and assures this type of mess will continue...

"The cost to harden the legacy database against a possible intrusion could come to $10 million, he says. The cost to notify customers in case of a breach might be $1 million. With those figures, says Spaltro, âoeitâ(TM)s a valid business decision to accept the riskâ of a security breach. âoeI will not invest $10 million to avoid a possible $1 million loss,â he suggests."

http://www.cio.com/article/243...

Ah, the unsubstantiated assertions ... The pile of bad links to unrelated hacks by Iran, Russia and China ... Where have I seen that before? Wasn't that a part of preparing the public opinion to some other war? BTW, why isn't the fact that Sony's IT security was simply laughable not front page in NYT? They even have their CIO talking obvious nonsense on in an interview titled Your guide to good enough compliance. And we are not talking any sophisticated stuff here. Just basic things like changing you password and not keeping a file titled "passwords" on your hard rive.

But after the Apple Maps fiasco

You mean the greatest Hatorade orgy until Bendghazi? All navigation services have errors, but you didn't see people crying at Google.

On that list, Hershey (SAP), Nike (i2), HP (SAP), etc, etc, etc.

They don't have to outsource to a foreign country. Although in this case, that might explain a few things.

Just FYI for the purposes of considering how useful Waze is:

If you're a dedicated Waze user, don't worry: Google said it will leave the Waze team in Israel, where they will operate independently "for now." (That caveat implies Waze will be brought to America at some point.)

Maps App Will Remain Independent -- For Now

C)Get an android phone with unlimited possibilites and no walls.

Unlimited? Find me replacements for these 15 iOS-exclusive apps and I'll believe it.

Maine's Medicaid Mistakes... how to roll out a new system the wrong way.

http://www.cio.com/article/print/20133

They would never lie to us.

Let me back you up with three (3) citations;

1) Kinect: You Are the Controlled (June 10, 2012 @03:14PM)
    Discusses patent #20120143693

1. A computer-implemented method to determine emotional states of users that receive advertisements on client devices, the method comprising:
monitoring a user's online activity during a time period; processing the online activity to identify a tone associated with content that the user interacted with during the time period; receiving an indication of the user's reaction to the content; and assigning an emotional state to the user based on the tone of the content and the indication of the user's reaction to the content.

...

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from facial expressions of the user captured by an image capture device during the time period.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from user speech patterns captured by an audio capture device during the time period.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from gestures and body movements of the user captured by an image capture device during the time period.

2) Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World (November 18, 2010 @02:59AM)
Discusses Dennis Durkin

Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes.

3) Microsoft Integrating Xbox One Advertising With Kinect To Profile Users For Ads (July 05, 2013 @10:01PM )
Discusses the next generation of the Xbox

According to Xbox staff, the new console is exciting because "the 360 console wasn't built with advertising in mind, it was more of an afterthought... whereas this new one is going to have advertising in mind."

Yeah if you're in business for yourself and competing on product quality, then your competitions H1Bs are a boon. It's just true. In Indiana, they tried to revamp the welfare system using IBM, which basically means H1B. After a billion dollars, the whole thing wouldn't fly. Now everyone is suing everyone. If you set up a google alert for "failed IT project" you'll see what goes down all the time everywhere. So you have a state tax payers footing the bill for their universities sending their kids to that university but they can't get a job because the state hires companies that hire H1Bs

http://www.cio.com/article/712259/IBM_Beats_Indiana_in_Outsourcing_Case_No_One_Deserves_to_Win_

Any state decision maker from the Gov on down who hires an IT money pit company like IBM or INFOSYS or any of the other body shoppers ought to be removed from office by the taxpayers

If the submitter found the cause of the problem with "a little scratching" I doubt that the ones who hired him are in the dark as to what the problem is. What they need is outside confirmation that absolves them of responsibility. It may be productive to create a list of best practices for IT managers (preferably one from a generally accepted outside source) and see how the guy stacks up. If you want places to look for this, I suggest you start with CIO Magazine and maybe get a book or two on the subject. (Here is one. There are plenty of others.)

Just keep in mind that, if it works out, you might find yourself making a career of this. There is no dearth of incompetent IT managers out there, nor of bosses looking for a good excuse to give them the axe. Whether they deserve it or not.